by David Crossman, DGGB What follows, as in all things artistic, is born out of my own personal taste - but my views and techniques are from actual experience. THE WAYS TO MORE LOVABLE VIDEO A couple of years ago I won an Award for the Photographing a video "short"...
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Releases For Use in Film and Video
Video Release Form Basics Why should you get a signed video release form? Media companies and TV networks get a video release form signed so they will not be sued by someone who appears in a video. If you watch a Discovery, Cops or other TV show with "real people"...
PhotoShop for Video Tips and Tricks
by Lee Rickwood While this article does not go further than CS5 Extended, many of techniques of using Photoshop for video also apply to newer versions. Photoshop for video helps create and modify images specifically for a video. And this is just the beginning. CS5...
Commercials in Movie Theaters
by Brad Goodman In just the last five years cinema advertising revenues have jumped 48 percent from $212.3 million in 2002 to $315.1 million in 2003 in North America according to the Cinema Advertising Council. Such double-digit growth in cinema advertising is...
Adjusting The Back Focus of a Lens
In most cases, changing a lens will not require adjusting the back focus of a lens. But when a lens does not hold focus at both ends of the zoom range, you may need to adjust the back focus. By adjusting the back focus, you are changing the distance of between the...
The Art of Shooting the Video Interview: A Moving Portrait
By Bill Farnsworth Editor's Note: This was originally posted on rec.video.production Thanks Bill! I will tell you what I know from setting up and shooting ......... jeez, it's gotta be way more than a couple thousand interviews in the last 22 years. First off, you...
What Is Interlaced Video
and Why Should I Care? By Doug Graham and Morris What do people mean when they talk about "interlaced video", and why is it important? Interlaced video is a technology that was developed in the early days of television, to fit a watchable picture into the available...
Alfred Hitchcock’s Cameo Appearances
Cameo list courtesy of Col Needham, founder of The Internet Movie Database http://www.imdb.com/ Family Plot In silhouette through the door of the Registrar of Births and Deaths, 41 minutes into the movie. Frenzy In the center of a crowd, wearing a bowler hat, three...
Curt Gowdy American Sportsman
July 31, 1919 -- February 20, 2006 I first met Curt Gowdy when I was working for The American Sportsman, an ABC Sports show that could be seen on Sundays during the 1970s and 80s. The show was devoted to hunting, fishing and adventure. My job of Equipment Manager...
What’s the Best Video Editing System?
By Lee Rickwood It still depends on what you are editing. Several years ago, VideoUniversity published Doug Graham’s excellent article, What’s the Best Editing System? And while lots of technology has changed, the basic answer that Doug put forth back then...
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